Teashop Temptations For most visitors, the highlights of the local cuisine are the sweet and savoury snacks which are served in all the teashops in Male’, cooked for special occasions on far flung islands and occasionally served on the resorts. The savoury snacks are usually a mixture of smoked tuna, grated coconut, lime juice, onion and chilli, while the sweet snacks are concoctions of four, sugar, eggs and a few generous slurps of coconut honey. It is quite amazing that they all look and taste so different. Here is a selection to wet the appetite:

Savouries
Fihunu mas	Fish brushed with chilli paste and cooked slowly over hot coals
Gulha	Fish mixture wrapped in a pastry ball and deep fried
Kavaabu	Deep fried fish rissole
Keemia	Deep fried fish roll, the local answer to a sausage roll
Kulhi bis	Fish mixture wrapped in egg-shaped pastry, steamed and turned in a thick, creamy curry paste (eaten with a spoon)
Kulhi Borkibaa	Mildly spiced fishcake
Bajiya	Slightly sweet fish mixture wrapped in triangular shaped pastry and deep fried
Theluli Bambukeyo	Strips of breadfruit, deep fried until golden brown on the outside and soft and mushy in the middle
Theluli Kavaabu	Fish rissole dipped in bright yellow batter and deep fried
Theluli mas	Chunks of fish brushed with a chilli-onion garlic paste and fried
Sweets
Banas	Small sweet bread rolls
Bondi	White, finger-long coconut sticks
Bondi-baiy	Sticky rice custard
Foni borkibaa	Glutinous cake
Foni folhi	Thick pikelets
Keyku	Fluffy plain cake
Roas paan	Slices of bread dipped in egg and sugar then fried
Suji	Drink made with semolina, coconut milk, sultanas, nuts, sugar and a dash of cinnamon and cardamom